(Philipp Tur/iStock/Getty Images Plus) Right on the brink of black hole formation, spacetime can get downright peculiar. This ...

A team from Vienna and Frankfurt has found a formula describing a strange phenomenon: Space and time can form a kind of "crystal" that may turn into a black hole. The results are described in Physical ...

There is a place in the universe where the ordinary rules simply stop working. Time slows to a crawl. Space curves back on ...

A black hole does not have to begin with a dying star. In some corners of Einstein’s theory, it can start much smaller, from ...

The space-time oddities of modern physics may have just been taken to a new level of odd, as researchers have revealed that space and time can be used to ...

Oftentimes, we think of space as an endless, mostly empty vacuum, a silent backdrop where planets, stars, and galaxies play out their dance. We also think of time as something separate, a steady ...

In her second pop-science book, theoretical cosmologist Chanda Prescod-Weinstein returns to her celestial and cultural roots.

Whether space-time exists should neither be controversial nor even conceptually challenging, given the definitions of “space-time,” “events” and “instants.” The idea that space-time exists is no more ...